Samuray Akarvardar

I am concerned with the images of individuals who try to make sense of their changing environment. I believe our face and body perceive everything in our surrounding and create memory under our skin. With every pose and gesture we reveal some part of this memory.

The exposed curiosity, ambiguity, anxiety, insecurity and exhaustion of the individual is the focus of my paintings. I tend to isolate the figure from its surrounding and let the gesture of the body or the face indicate a certain circumstance and moment in one’s life.

I work with thin layers of paint to achieve transparency, fluidity and textural contrast. Although I like to make use of the immediate and random effects of the medium and the materials, I am very conscious with their sensational implications. January 2013Saratoga Springs, NY